Well, that sounded weird

Six years into this whole CI thing, I find that I have far less that prompts me to come here and ramble on.  My CIs have just become a fact of life, something that I'm used to and rely on but don't necessarily go around reacting to everything as though it's new, because, hey, it's been six years.  It's not new.

But sitting there listening to the odd noises that my husband is making in the kitchen (seriously, you don't want to know), it occurs to me that a part of this journey that's still active is learning what justifies getting up and running to make sure he's not unconscious or sitting in there with the components of half our dishes on the floor.

I just don't have the judgment about sounds that hearing people do.

Things that sound alarming to me just generate a "nothing, I just bumped a pan on the stove" or "what, I'm just talking to myself" from my husband.  Which may or may not be normal behavior - I don't know.  I know it's pretty much normal for him.  But asking him to repeat his mutterings to himself is just a question of content - talking is talking, and there's no way for me to know whether I'm expected to have heard unless I ask, and honestly, a lot of the time he's talking to himself, or to the cat.  Spot gets a lot of words directed at him for an animal whose most common response is MOW MOW MOW.

But the noises can be really weird.  Are you dragging a corpse across the floor, breaking a highball glass, dropping your tea, what?  I no longer really even take any notice of the generator doing its weekly self-test, and THAT took quite a while to become routine.  But the ones that aren't repetitive enough to get used to can be really hard to interpret without running in to check on the damage.

I'm starting to think that may be true for everyone.  Is it?